HAWI MIDEKSSA

Award: Best Designer and Women’s Entrepreneurship Award – Africa Fashion Up 2025
Originally from Ethiopia - Brand Hawii

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With his brand HAWII, Hawi Midekssa imposes a unique vision of fashion: a stylistic language that draws on Ethiopian roots to better engage with the world. Revealed on the stages of Paris and New York, his artistic approach is distinguished by an aesthetic that is both powerful and subtle, where each creation becomes a manifesto of identity, resilience, and independence. His commitment goes beyond the framework of creation. Through the Women’s Entrepreneurship Award, Africa Fashion Up salutes its ambition to found in Ethiopia a fashion school, real lever of insertion, transmission and emancipation for a new generation of African talents.